Asteroids ... it is called the Asteroid Belt.
Asteroids
Those objects are called asteroids.
It is an asteroid.
They are asteroids.
The small rocky bodies between Mars and Jupiter are called asteroids. These objects are small and are made of rock or iron. Jupiter's gravity is stopping these rocks from forming a planet but even if they did form a planet, the resulting planet would only be half the size of the moon.
There is no "small dense object" that orbits between Mars and Jupiter. There are however numerous asteroids which are rocky objects up to a few hundred miles in diameter that orbit in this region making up what is called the asteroid belt.
Asteroids
Asteroids
An asteroid is a small rocky object that orbits the Sun, typically found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They are remnants from the early formation of the solar system and can vary in size from small boulders to objects several hundred kilometers in diameter.
Gravity is greater between objects with large masses than between objects with small masses.
Asteroids
asteroids